News tagged with tumor suppressor protein


Novel 'On-Off Switch' Mechanism Stops Cancer in Its Tracks

Novel 'On-Off Switch' Mechanism Stops Cancer in Its Tracks

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, ...


Research shows cell's inactive state is critical for effectiveness of cancer treatment

Biology /

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study sheds light on a little understood biological process called quiescence, which enables blood-forming stem cells to exist in a dormant or inactive state in which they are not growing or dividing. According to the ...





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Largest gene study of childhood IBD identifies 5 new genes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the largest, most comprehensive genetic analysis of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an international research team has identified five new gene regions, including one involved in a biological pathway ...


Paradoxical protein might prevent cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One difficulty with fighting cancer cells is that they are similar in many respects to the body's stem cells. By focusing on the differences, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found a new way of tackling ...


Research reveals lipids' unexpected role in triggering death of brain cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The lipid that accumulates in brain cells of individuals with an inherited enzyme disorder also drives the cell death that is a hallmark of the disease, according to new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...


Explained: RNA interference

Explained: RNA interference

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, ...


Researchers 'notch' a victory toward new kind of cancer drug

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in ...


New mechanism explains how the body prevents formation of blood vessels

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden and abroad, have identified an entirely new mechanism by which a specific protein in the body inhibits formation of new blood vessels. Inhibiting ...


Discovery in worms points to more targeted cancer treatment

Discovery in worms points to more targeted cancer treatment

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at Queen's University have found a link between two genes involved in cancer formation in humans, by examining the genes in worms. The groundbreaking discovery provides a foundation for how tumor-forming ...


Study shows that some malignant tumors can be shut down after all

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Oncologists have had their hands tied because more than half of all human cancers have mutations that disable a protein called p53. As a critical anti-cancer watchdog, p53 masterminds several cancer-fighting operations within ...


1930s drug slows tumor growth

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...


Study provides insights into the molecular basis of tumor cell behavior

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by a team of researchers led by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, sheds light on the molecular basis by which tumor cells modulate their surroundings ...



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